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"The Social and Political Life of Shame in the U.S. Presidential Election 2016" by Mary Watkins, Ph.D.

Posted by Bonnie Bright on November 13, 2016 at 5:30pm

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Mary Watkins, Ph.D., is a professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute and co- founder of the Community Psychology, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology Specialization in the M.A./Ph.D. Depth Psychology Program. 

Mary has generously provided Depth Psychology Alliance with a copy of her recent article entitled "The Social and Political Life of Shame in the U.S. Presidential Election 2016"

MARY WRITES:

I have I have been tracking how shame has been operating in the current presidential election. I offer a short paper I prepared for a panel on “Shame and the Experience of Class in the U.S.”, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Psychosocial Work Group of the Psychology and the Other Institute, Cambridge, MA.

Download the PDF article here:

Mary Watkins: The Social and Political Life of-Shame 10-31-16.pdf

>Follow the Forum Discussion about the Election here on Depth Psychology Alliance

Tags: Mary Watkins, culture, politics, presidential election, shame
Posted by Bonnie Bright

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